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This article presents the difference in patterns of NGOs’ post-disaster reconstruction between the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and the 2013 Lushan earthquake based on a case study of the One Foundation. The comparative studies of the One Foundation’s activities during the two responses illustrate that the organizational strategy gradually shifted from “resource-based” to “learning-based”. Their approach evolved from the providing of resources to the providing of knowledge, as they transformed both aid providers and recipients into collaborative learners, changed a resource-delivery organization into a learning organization and shaped a decentralized partnership of organizations into a mutual learning ecosystem in which knowledge flowed in multiple directions. This example of the One Foundation illustrates the potential future directions of NGOs' participation in disaster response in China.
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The authors are grateful to special issue guest editors, and anonymous reviewers for their insightful and constructive comments on previous versions of this article. The research is supported by the China Scholarship Council, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and Interdisciplinary Research Foundation for the First-Year Doctoral Candidates (Grant No. BNUXKJC1820).
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Lu, Q., Zhong, D. & Zhang, Q. The evolving pattern of NGOs’ participating in post-disaster community reconstruction in China: cases study on the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and the 2013 Lushan earthquake. Nat Hazards 104 (Suppl 1), 167–184 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04130-5
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